Drugs & Medicines
“The legalization of drugs is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment,
and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.”
― Sebastian Marincolo
Weed the People
Filmmakers Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake take an unflinching look at the underground world of herbal medicine, where patients become experts on their own conditions and spend thousands of dollars on federally illegal medicines that are concocted in suburban kitchens.
Neurons to Nirvana
Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of five powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Cannabis) and their now established medicinal potential.
"Wow! Wow! WoW! Wonderful! A message of light in the twilight of our time."
Adam MIlan
"Best film on psychedelics to come along for a long time!"
Dennis McKenna
Freedom & Society
“The truth will set you free,
but first it will piss you off.”
― Gloria Steinem
The Compassion Revolution
We all make choices, but we make choices with a brain that we didn’t choose. This simple fact has the power to revolutionize our world, to fundamentally change the way we think about freedom, politics, punishment, reward, morality and compassion. Taking us on a journey from buddhist monks to neuroscientists, death row inmates to billionaires, judges to revolutionaries, this film sets out to radically alter the way we see ourselves and our world.
The Illusion of Freedom
The follow up to the acclaimed The Lottery of Birth explores the relationship between freedom and power in democratic society, drawing together interviews with some of the world’s leading intellectuals, academics, journalists and activists that join the dots between the education system, the media, PR, democracy, and economics to offer an alternative perspective on today’s society and the future we are creating.
Tawai – A Voice From The Forest
Using Western scientific reductionism, Eastern spiritual enquiry and ancient tribal wisdom, our host Bruce Parry will take us on a sensational, thought provoking journey to question our deeper selves. Quest explores how conditioned we have become by culture and that learning to reevaluate our thoughts, actions, feelings and beliefs might lead to an increased wellness within our individual and collective lives, as well as our relationship with the planet.
Time for Change
Follows author Daniel Pinchbeck on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all
"Hands-down the best documentary of new age concepts out there"
The Lottery of Birth
Do you shape the world or does the world shape you? Is freedom something we are born with or something we must work to attain? Offering a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, ‘The Lottery of Birth’ is going to make you think again about what it means to be free.
"I was blown away"
- Colin Firth
Love & Sex
Films that explore the Great Questions in Life:
Cosmic Sex, True Love, and Great Marriages
Monogamish
Why are relationships so hard? Recovering from a very public divorce, Tao Ruspoli took to the road to ask this question to advice columnists, relatives, sex therapists, historians, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, sex workers and ordinary couples. The results of this exploration of sex, love and monogamy were so unexpected and so surprising he had to make a film about it.
"Monogamish is like a starter course in the prevailing thinking around non-monogamy as taught by its foremost writers, philosophers, and therapists."
IndieWire
Life & Death
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
Being in the World
Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, or, might they still be around, in the form of modern day masters, in fields like sports, music, craft and cooking. Are these masters able to inspire us and bring back a sense of wonder, possibly even of the sacred?
"Exquisite Work!"
-The Examiner
Dying To Know
Two friends, Ram Dass & Timothy Leary, the era they shaped and their exploration of the next frontier – death.
Narrated by Robert Redford
"We can feel the bond that these two men had for each other - and it makes for a genuine love story."
SF Chronicle